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09 December 2009 11:37 PM | Tagged: obama
News broke this week that Obama ecstasy had been found during a traffic stop in Texas, which got us thinking of all the truly inappropriate products that use our president's name or face. Here are the worst offenders. Add your own if you know of others!

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09 December 2009 4:17 PM | Tagged: police protesters gear obama visit
OSLO - Although he doesn't show up at the Copenhagen climate talks until next week, U.S. President Barack Obama won't be far from global warming issues when he lands in Oslo Thursday to collect his contentious Nobel Peace Prize. Greenpeace activists

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09 December 2009 9:27 AM | Tagged: obama health reforms step forward
The Obama administration’s efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system took a major step forward on Tuesday night when moderate and liberal Democratic senators reached broad agreement on a reform bill that could gather enough support to pass throug

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09 December 2009 3:07 AM | Tagged: obama pushes plans job creation
President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered modest steps to spur jobs and defended his push to get the U.S. economy growing, amid deep public dismay over double-digit unemployment that has eroded his popularity. Obama proposed small business tax cut

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09 December 2009 3:07 AM | Tagged: obama proposes tax incentive hire workers
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a tax incentive for small businesses that add workers, even as Congress struggles to figure out how such an idea would work. Lawmakers have been working for several months to develop a tax credi

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08 December 2009 10:57 PM | Tagged: obama unveils stimulus jobs
Barack Obama unveiled plans on Tuesday to divert some of the $200bn (€136bn) in lower than expected spending on troubled bank assets to boosting job creation, in what amounted to a second fiscal stimulus.But the US president, who said his proposals

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08 December 2009 7:17 PM | Tagged: obama unveils boost job creation
Barack Obama on Tuesday announced that at least some of the $200bn in lower-than- expected spending under the troubled asset relief programme would go towards projects aimed at ensuring that jobs growth “matches economic growth.In a speech on jobs t

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08 December 2009 3:27 AM | Tagged: obama sending envoy north korea
SEOUL, South Korea - After a year of tensions, President Barack Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adve